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Her life ended during the early hours of Nov. 30, when 15 to 30 gang members came to her home on College Avenue near Belmont Avenue in central Fresno. The gang members were looking for Marina’s cousin. When they learned that he wasn’t at the home, someone in the crowd opened fire. One of the bullets stuck Marina as she rushed back into her home.

Paralyzed from the chin down, unable to breathe or eat on her own, Marina lingered near death in intensive care at Community Regional Medical Center before she died on Jan. 2.